The fall 2018 lecture of the Matos Lecture Series will be delivered by Alfredo López Austin, Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Anthropological Research at Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM). The lecture will be held on Tuesday, October 9th at 7 p.m. CDT/8 p.m. EST at the Jaime Torres Bodet Auditorium of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. The event will be live-streamed via the DRCLAS website.

Harvard University established the Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series in 2017 in an effort to renew its commitment to closer research and education collaboration with Mexico. This series celebrates the excellence of Mexican archaeology and history, represented by the figure of Professor Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Mexico’s preeminent archaeologist. After an initial year in which Professor Matos Moctezuma himself delivered inaugural lectures in both Mexico City and Cambridge in fall and spring, respectively, two world-renowned experts on Mexican history will be invited to deliver the Matos Lectures each year until 2021, in Mexico City in the fall and in Cambridge in the spring.